Accession number
PML 251440
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Published
Worcester [Mass.] : Achille J. St. Onge, 1967.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Collection of Thoreau's journal notes on turtles from the summer of 1854, published in honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Portrait consists of an uncancelled U.S. 5-cent stamp with an engraving by Leonard Baskin.
"Fifteen hundred copies of this book were printed from Baskerville type on 'Ingres Bütten' paper by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, and bound by Proost en Brandt, N.V., Amsterdam, Holland"--Colophon.
Housed in Achille St. Onge box II.
Portrait consists of an uncancelled U.S. 5-cent stamp with an engraving by Leonard Baskin.
"Fifteen hundred copies of this book were printed from Baskerville type on 'Ingres Bütten' paper by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, and bound by Proost en Brandt, N.V., Amsterdam, Holland"--Colophon.
Housed in Achille St. Onge box II.
Description
42 pages : portrait ; 67 mm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Olive green leather stamped in gilt; gilded edges.
Classification
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